Santa Pod 5th November 2011

I entered a competition in the local news paper 'The Beds on Sunday' to win tickets to go to Santa Pod (the Drag Racing Strip) to see their firework display. You had to say when Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament, it was 1605 and I was lucky enough to win tickets. It wasn't too bad weather and the promised rain didn't materialise. With my camera it wasn't possible to take pictures of the fireworks, so apologies for that. They (the fireworks) were excellent and one of the best displays I have seen for a long while. The bonfire was also quite impressive and, although it was hard to see, it was lit by the jet engine that was mounted in a Volkswagen Beetle!

There was some on track activity with motorcycle stunts and a number of jet powered vehicles putting on flaming displays. There was a jet go-kart!, a jet powered Volkswagen Beetle and the jet truck shown below. Not a bad evening out but perhaps a little disappointing if you expected to see more car action.